I would have bought the proper ladder - you got away with it THIS time
Mark N1UK G3ZZM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chet Moore" <ChetMoore@cox.net>
To: "Barry" <w2up3@verizon.net>; <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 05 September, 2007 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Extension Ladder on Tower
> Barry,
>
> There would only be one reason to lash ladders together like
> that...........I have looked but I can not find the antenna you must have
> been working on !!
>
>
> CHet
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry" <w2up3@verizon.net>
> To: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Extension Ladder on Tower
>
>
>> Here's another crazy one, done by your's truly. I needed to work on a
>> ceiling fan in our 2 story family room. Naturally, I didn't have a 14
>> or 16 ft A frame ladder, so I lashed these two ladders together:
>> http://mysite.verizon.net/w2up3/ladder.jpg
>>
>> My wife was standing on the bottom rung to keep it from tipping (and I'm
>> still here to talk about it.)
>> Barry W2UP
>>
>> Dick, W1KSZ wrote:
>>> Is Andrews last name Wallenda ??
>>>
>>> (Sorry, couldn't resist).
>>>
>>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>>
>>> john@kk9a.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Page 24 of the September / October 2007 issue of NCJ shows Andrew, from
>>>> KC1XX towers, using an extension ladder to reach an antenna element.
>>>> The
>>>> ladder is somehow attached to the tower and it leans against the
>>>> element
>>>> and
>>>> he is able to climb out to repair the beam, which happens to be 185
>>>> feet
>>>> high. I recall many years ago seeing slides in Dayton of someone doing
>>>> something similar. This certainly takes pucker factor to a whole new
>>>> level.
>>>> I wonder how common this is and what safety precautions are used with
>>>> this
>>>> method of antenna repair.
>>>>
>>>> John KK9A
>>>>
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>> --
>>
>> Barry Kutner, W2UP Newtown, PA
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